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Intern experience at CH���M Hill, Inc.: an internship report
No full textIncludes author's vita"Submitted to the College of Engineering of Texas A&M University in partial
fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Engineering."Includes bibliographical referencesA review of the author's internship experience with CH���M HILL, Inc.
during the period September 1975 through May 1976 is presented. During this nine month
internship the author worked as an Engineer II in the Industrial Processes discipline of this
large consulting engineering firm... The author's prime responsibility was as one of three
lead design engineers on the design of a large wastewater treatment facility for a pulp mill
in Hoquiam, Washington owned by ITT Rayonier Inc. The work generally consisted of the design
of individual treatment units and associated piping and pumping. The purpose of the project
was to provide wastewater treatment capabilities that would satisfy the effluent limitations
(standards) imposed upon the mill by the State of Washington Department of Ecology and the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The author's assignment also entailed necessary
interaction with the project manager and other CH���M HILL design engineers and support staff
members, the client's representatives, and representatives of two other consulting engineering
firms working on the project. Thus, the internship position at CH���M HILL provided considerable
experience coordinating the author's work with the work of other engineers, guiding the design
and administrative efforts of a support staff, and interacting regularly with the client and
other consulting firms. This broad exposure to a variety of engineering and organizational
problems provided a valuable educational experience
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
M-regularity and the fourier-mukai transform
No full textThis is a survey of M-regularity and its applications, expanding on lectures given by the second author at the Seattle conference, in August 2005, and at the Luminy workshop "Geometrie Algebrique Complexe", in October 2005
Paulo Freire. Promotore di alfabeti inediti
No full textUn volume che si configura come insieme di contributi di carattere interdisciplinare
che declinano, sul versante socioeducativo, il portato significativo
della pedagogia freiriana e degli studi critici che ne hanno consentito
lo sviluppo, nell’ultimo trentennio, sul piano delle pratiche pedagogiche,
educative e sociali. È noto come Freire, nell’articolazione progressiva del
suo metodo di alfabetizzazione, si sia ampiamente servito della parola,
delle parole generatrici e della creazione di quadri-situazione in grado di
stimolare processi di coscientizzazione delle persone nei loro contesti di
vita e delle comunità di persone. Così articolata, l’interpellante azione pedagogica
di Freire è aperta a una concezione dialogica dell’educazione,
necessariamente estesa all’atto dell’apprendere e a quello dell’insegnare.
Ai suoi occhi, infatti, non esiste nessuna parola autentica che non sia anche
prassi. Per l’autore brasiliano l’atto di pronunciare la parola autentica arriva
a coincidere con la trasformazione del mondo, di quello simbolico e finanche
di quello reale
La lezione di Freire: quale contributo per la didattica rivolta agli allievi con bisogni educativi speciali?
No full textIl contesto pregevole del Convegno Nazionale SIPED “Pedagogia e politica,
in occasione dei 100 anni dalla nascita di Paulo Freire” ha promosso una
fertile riflessione epistemologica intorno al pensiero freiriano, che ha dato
le mosse al tratteggiarsi di una cornice valoriale e culturale di grandissimo
spessore metodologico ed interpretativo. Questa cornice, infatti, ha con sentito di argomentare a più voci sulla pratica educativa di stampo freiriano,
fondamentalmente contraddistinta da una forte valenza emancipatrice e
dialogica, determinata ad influenzare il senso dell’approccio all’istruzione
e alla formazione nel corso della storia e nell’ambito dell’incessante mutarsi
della realtà sociale (Catarci, 2016), anche alla luce dei recentissimi cambia menti dovuti all’emergenza sanitaria, che ha prepotentemente influenzato
gli scenarinon solo politico-economico-sociali, ma anche educativi (Istat,
2020)
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
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